Re: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet

> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/01/canada-gets-first-bitter-dose-of-metered-internet-billing.ars

> 200GB to 25GB: Canada gets first, bitter dose of metered Internet

FWIW, my cable provider (Shaw) currently gives me 70GB per month, and when 
I phoned them a few weeks ago to ask how much bandwidth we were using 
(after a couple months of Netflix streaming), I was told we had used 
something like 30GB in the previous 30 days -- so we're not even halfway 
to using up our bandwidth allotment.

> But like it or not, the Canadian Radio-Telecommunications Commission 
> (CRTC) approved UBB for the incumbent carrier Bell Canada in September. 
> Competitive ISPs, which connect to Canada's top telco for last-mile 
> copper connections to customers, will also be metered by Bell.

Bell is our top telco?  Might be an Ontario thing; I'm not sure I've even 
heard of them out here.  Shaw and Telus are the two main cable providers 
in B.C., or at least they're the only ones who send me junk mail looking 
for my business.  (We already use Shaw for the internet, but we still get 
junk mail from them offering to give us TV and a phone line, as well.)

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